“I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.” FactsHelpingYoungWishDancingAppreciationEarnestAmusementRecreation Book:Live Coals Source: Live Coals
“I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.” WayShouldMadeSometimesEnoughWantedDiesPassionSpeakWishEnjoyBehindsSawsTenBeatsDancingDanceNotionPartnersNineMade ItNecksAlasLightersDelirious Author:Ethel Smyth
“There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.” PeopleWishBitsTheoryLuckDancingLovelyHornsGood LuckEscapismUnapologetic Author:Cherie Lunghi
“Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.” KindReasonOrderWishRoomsWallJudgmentBallsDancingAll KindsSatanVisibleDancerRighteousnessDisorderProvokingMischiefWildnessLevity Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“There's something people find hilarious about dogs surfing and dancing and talking in the movies. I think it's nice for people - I think it's wish fulfillment - to see animals talking.” PeopleThinkingWishAnimalTalkingNiceDogDancingFulfillmentSurfing Author:Owen Wilson